John Swales

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John Swales is a linguist known for his work on genre analysis in applied linguistics and ESL. He is a Professor of Linguistics and former Director of the English Language Institute at the University of Michigan. In addition to writing scholarly books and publications, John Swales is unique among Applied Linguists in that he is also the author of several writing textbooks for students whose native language is not English.

[edit] Published works

• Genre Analysis: English in Academic and Research Settings (Cambridge, 1990)
• Other Floors, Other Voices: A Textography of a Small University Building (Erlbaum, 1998)
• "English in Today's Research World" (co-authored with Christine Feak) (University of Michigan Press, 2000)
• Research Genres (Cambridge, 2004).
• Academic Writing for Graduate Students (co-authored with Christine Feak) (University of Michigan Press, 2004)